Oceans

Little-Used Boat Ramps, An Abandoned Marketplace, Rusting Ice Machines Nathan Eagle/Civil Beat

Little-Used Boat Ramps, An Abandoned Marketplace, Rusting Ice Machines

In American Samoa, some locals say the Wespac fisheries fund projects have been a waste of money. They have more hope for a marina expansion currently in the works.

Conflicts, Lax Oversight Shroud This Secretive Fisheries Fund Ronen Zilberman/Civil Beat

Conflicts, Lax Oversight Shroud This Secretive Fisheries Fund

A federal fisheries oversight council has stymied inquiries by congressmen, journalists and others over the past few years.

Podcast: Our Journey To The Last Wild Place Nathan Eagle/Civil Beat

Podcast: Our Journey To The Last Wild Place

The story behind Civil Beat’s award-winning multimedia project, and how the trip is informing our current reporting on climate change.

Big Island: Beach Created By Volcanic Eruption Was Born Polluted Department of Land and Natural Resources

Big Island: Beach Created By Volcanic Eruption Was Born Polluted

You might think a brand new black sand beach would be pristine. But microplastics have already been detected at Pohoiki in Lower Puna.

VIDEO: Oahu’s Disappearing Beaches Nathan Eagle/Civil Beat/2019

VIDEO: Oahu’s Disappearing Beaches

Touring the south shore in the Civil Beat van, climate experts Chip Fletcher and Sam Lemmo talk with us about sea level rise and beach erosion.

Pod Squad: Save Our Sharks Chad Blair/Civil Beat

Pod Squad: Save Our Sharks

We discuss legislation that would prohibit the intentional killing of sharks and manta rays in Hawaii waters.

Losing A Beachfront Home Isn’t Just A Rich Person’s Problem Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Losing A Beachfront Home Isn’t Just A Rich Person’s Problem

As the sea level rise exacerbates coastal erosion, many longtime middle-class residents are struggling to protect their properties.

Study: Moving Ourselves Away From The Shoreline Is Hard But Doable Nathan Eagle/Civil Beat

Study: Moving Ourselves Away From The Shoreline Is Hard But Doable

A new report sheds light on some of the critical factors for the state to consider when implementing a managed retreat strategy.

Scientists Surprised To Find Endangered Seabirds On Oahu Lindsay Young/Pacific Rim Conservation

Scientists Surprised To Find Endangered Seabirds On Oahu

The critically endangered Newell’s shearwater and Hawaiian petrel were thought to be living almost exclusively on Kauai.

Fight Against Climate Change Is ‘An All-Out, All-In War’ Nathan Eagle/Civil Beat

Fight Against Climate Change Is ‘An All-Out, All-In War’

Keynote speaker at Hawaii Climate Conference cites importance of equitability in how we respond to the effects of a warming planet.